De Niro and Pacino Re-Unite in "Righteous Kill"

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will team onscreen for just the second time in "Righteous Kill," a $60 million indie production put together by Nu Image's Millennium Films.

Shooting will begin August 6th in Connecticut, with some work in Gotham to follow. The two stars play cops chasing a serial killer. Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes) will direct and produce and the script is by "Inside Man" scribe Russell Gewirtz.

Nu Image topper Avi Lerner and Randall Emmett, two of the pic's six producers, did not disclose additional plot details or the source material during a short press briefing Thursday. Rights to all world territories are being shopped in Cannes.

"This is an event in world history," Lerner said. "They were in two scenes in 'Heat.' In this movie, they are in the whole thing together."